A photograph of the Arcade, Nashville, Tennessee. The Arcade opened in 1903, running east to west between what were then Cherry Street and Summer Street; present day Fourth Avenue North and Fifth Avenue North. It was conceived by Nashville resident...

A photograph of a stone carving of the face of a woman over the archway of one entrance to the 5th Avenue side of Saint Cloud Corner, 500 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee. Part of the building occupies the former site of the Saint Cloud Hotel, a...

A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...

A mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years.

A photograph of the Downtown Presbyterian Church located on the corner of present day Fifth Avenue and Church Street. When the building was first erected in 1849 the streets were called Summer Street and Spring Street, and the structure briefly...

A letter from Dutch immigrant Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...

A color postcard of the Golf and Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The first nine holes were completed by the summer of 1901. Fields were cut by mule-drawn mowers to prepare for the holes. The first clubhouse, as seen on the postcard, was...

A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, to his wife, Eunice, in the years following the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. ...

A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, to his wife, Eunice, in the years following the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. ...

A portrait of Colonel Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen, photographed at Belmont Mansion circa December 1979. Acklen was a lawyer, planter, and veteran of the Texas Revolution. He was the second husband of Adelicia Hayes Franklin, later Cheatham, and...

A view of St. Mary's Catholic Church located at 330 Fifth Avenue North in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. St. Mary's Catholic Church, the first Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Tennessee, was designed by William Strickland, architect for the Tennessee...

An exterior view of the old Father Ryan High School, located at 2300 Elliston Place in Nashville, Tennessee, circa July 1978. This school building was originally constructed circa 1928-29 on land that was once a part of the Elliston family...

A photograph of St. Mary's Catholic Church located at 330 Fifth Avenue North in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. St. Mary's Catholic Church, the first Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Tennessee, was designed by William Strickland, architect for the...

A front view of the old Father Ryan High School, located at 2300 Elliston Place in Nashville, Tennessee. This school building was originally constructed circa 1928-29 on land that was once a part of the Elliston family plantation. The Roman...

A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The map on...

A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The caption reads: “Nashville is not going to tolerate unclean streets, alleys, backyards, etc., this summer, if the Junior Chamber of Commerce has anything to...

Jonathan Jennings was killed by Indians in the summer of 1780 at the point of the first island above Nashville. Jennings's will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on July 6, 1784 by James Robertson and William Fletcher. This is...

Oil on canvas painting of Adelicia Acklen at the Belmont Mansion, circa December 1979. Adelicia Hayes was born in Nashville, March 15, 1817 to Oliver Bliss Hayes and Sarah Clements Hightower. She attended the Nashville Female Academy. In 1849,...

Oil on canvas painting of Adelicia Acklen with her horse Bucephalus, by the artist William Browning Cooper (created circa 1845) at the Belmont Mansion, circa December 1979. Adelicia Hayes was born in Nashville, March 15, 1817 to Oliver Bliss Hayes...